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Hi Jonathan, thanks for the note. I'm forwarding it to the MD mailing
list. -Rick
>At the risk of promoting Fujistu unduly -- I don't know anything about the
>quality of this unit other than that it seemed attractive -- I can add that
>the local dealer was actually selling it for $1,399, plus there's supposed
>to be a $100 rebate. So if nothing else, it's the cheapest DVD-equipped
>notebook I have ever seen.
>
>I wish it had SPDIF *in* though -- someone needs to realize that, though
>MP3 and all that are nice, some of us are creative enough to make our own
>live recordings and would love to get them into a portable workstation
>easily for editing.
>
>Actually, if you'd like to forward other comments to the list in the hopes
>that product planners somewhere might read them, I will plead for a device
>that no one has made -- a combination Minidisc player/recorder and CD
>Recorder. It seems like everyone is focused on the reverse, copying from CD
>to MD, but that offers relatively little for the creative recordist. A deck
>that could go the other way would be great for perfecting live recordings
>and other productions, then copying them to a CD complete with track
>numbers. For those of us who now use a Minidisc recorder connected to a
>computer-based CD burner, all of this is unnecessarily difficult.
>
> I, for one, wouldn't mind a pass through ATRAC if it allowed me to create
>my own custom complications and then burn them to a CD.
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